First video test in Reaction Grid blows away my expectations
I had cooled down on making video tutorials in Second Life for many reasons that go blah, blah, blah. =)
However, I still find virtual worlds an excellent, fast, cheap, and easy way to create video scenarios (and even still images) for use in corporate eLearning. Thanks to Jokay’s experience and her grace in dealing with it, I learned about Reaction Grid.
I had looked into OpenSim as an alternative last year and after installing it on my own machine came to the conclusion that this was more than most eLearning providers would care to do. It certainly was challenging for me anyway. ;)
After all, the idea is to be easy!
I have been in Reaction grid with my private four sim estate getting ramped up again and finally have had time to create a test video.
I was able to maintain frame rates of 70 (zomg!!!) with antialias cranked up to 8x. Compare that to 20-30 with antialias set to 2x in Second Life. The OpenSim application has been rewritten and scrutinized by truly gifted and talented people who work for free to make virtual worlds as good as possible.
I’d say from my little test that they succeeded.
credits: Ener Hax for a nifty spaceship orbiting through four sims, as is the camera (try that in Second Life – these sim crossings are amazing)
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Sneak Peak at Level 2 Venue
Myself, Ener Hax, Dream Walker, and Nickola Martynov have been working on our new four sim grid hosted by Reaction Grid. We are creating all the furnishings you will need to hold productive meetings in a virtual world. With the cost of Reaction Grid being far more reasonable, we expect to help people set up their own grids and be effective quickly.
That means not just getting you a grid, but loading up landscaped terrain complete with buildings built using the best virtual world practices*. Also included is copyable furniture and even avatar shapes, skins, and clothing.
But wait! There’s more . . . oops, no extra ShamWOWs (you know they’re made in Germany) . . .
You also get video tutorials to help you be efficient right from the start – whether for business meetings or eLearning use. This is the value of the team we have in place.
All have three years experience in Second Life as teachers, mentors, builders, and scripters. Ener and I have done several large projects in Second Life (and Ener manages the 12 sim iliveisl estate), Nickola has been awarded land for wonderful builds for the sixth birthday celebration of Second Life as well as this year’s Burning Life. Dream Walker has run her own sthop selling items she scripts herself (and she can script almost anything and does so for the iliveisl estate – plus she has event experience with security and anti-griefing practices).
More information will be out soon. Meanwhile, we are building chairs, laptops, lamps, holodecks, windmills, solar panels, . . .
*best practices include tall ceilings, easy places to take off from and land, careful use of textures to reduce lag, land divided up for effective use of media streams, making sure breakout rooms have 20 metres separation for chat, and so on